The primary suspect in Tuesday night's robbery and deadly shooting at a Subway restaurant in Stockton was taken into police custody Wednesday afternoon, officials said.

For more than an hour, officers with the Stockton Police Department -- along with a K-9 unit, a SWAT team and a police helicopter overhead -- positioned themselves in the area of Alpine Drive and Kettleman Lane, in Lodi, where they believed the suspect was hiding.

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Police believed the man -- later identified as Steven Drew Allee, 32 -- might have been at a house nearby. It wasn't immediately clear who the home belonged to, or how Allee was connected to it. A perimeter was set around the area and the house as officials investigated.

Jerry James Lucero, a 43-year-old employee at the chain sandwich shop, was shot to death one night ago. Lucero was from Stockton.

The shooting and robbery took place about 9:30 p.m. in the 3700 block of Hammer Lane. Lucero died at a hospital.

A community response team was expected to be at the same Subway shop at 2 p.m., talking with people in the area to offer resources and support.

Earlier this week, nine people were shot in five separate shootings within a two-hour period in the city of Stockton. None of those victims died.